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If there was one UCLA player who made a tremendous jump in the eyes of NFL scouts last season, it was defensive end Owamagbe Odighizuwa. Odighizuwa will get a chance to wow NFL teams some more Thursday at the NFL combine. He has already gone from little known to a player who could be drafted in the second round, maybe higher. The rapid rise came after Odighizuwa missed the 2013 season after hip surgery. He had the presence at 6-foot-3, 270 pounds, was one of the strongest players on the team and translated those attributes to the field in 2014. He opened the season by deflecting a pass that was intercepted and returned for a touchdown by Ishmael Adams against Virginia. He finished...

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If there was one UCLA player who made a tremendous jump in the eyes of NFL scouts last season, it was defensive end Owamagbe Odighizuwa.
Odighizuwa will get a chance to wow NFL teams some more Thursday at the NFL combine. He has already gone from...

UCLA quarterback Brett Hundley resumed practice with the Bruins on Friday morning, three weeks after leaving the Stanford game with an injured finger.
Hundley threw this week for the first time since the game. The swelling has gone down on the index...

UCLA offensive lineman Malcolm Bunche did not accompany the team to San Antonio for the Valero Alamo Bowl due to academic issues, according to a UCLA official.
Bunch transferred from Miami as a graduate student last spring.
He started the first six...

Paul Perkins sits on the verge of individual achievement, something he doesn't care much about.
UCLA's sophomore running back can shoot up the record-book charts with another big day against Kansas State in the Valero Alamo Bowl on Jan. 2.
Perkins has...

Brett Hundley, who is preparing to play his last game as UCLA’s quarterback, was asked Wednesday if there was an NFL quarterback he patterned himself after.
Former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was his choice.
“I talk to him at least...

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Phil Mickelson stood five strokes back through early second-round play at the Shell Houston Open on Friday, but the leaderboard wasn't the only thing that mattered to him.
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A Banksy mural that adorned a wall of a Los Angeles gas station is headed for auction.
Julien’s Auctions announced Tuesday that "Flower Girl" would headline the company's “Street Art”...

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